20 Easy-to-use Mockup Tools to Design Your Next App

Sketching up the frames of your app is a great way to make it a bit more realistic. This is a step that can’t be avoided when building any kind of application.

But, you can take this to the next level.

Using some of the tools mentioned below, you can create even interactive mockups that can be exported and run on any device working like a real application or a prototype.

This is an efficient way to test your assumptions about your app; it also provides detailed instructions for developers, making their job much easier and faster. Mockups are also extremely important when you work with an external software development company.

We collected 20 free and paid mockup tools you can use when you start working on your next mobile or web application.

A simple drag-and-drop tool for creating interactive prototypes of desktop, mobile and web apps in a faster way.

Main features:

Interactive prototypes

Pre-designed components

Testing on real devices

Multiple export options

Pricing:

Free

Pro: $199/user/year

Bonus: Mockplus iDoc
is a powerful product design collaboration tool for designers and engineers. It helps connect the entire product design workflow. It facilitates handoff by taking designs from PS, Sketch, Adobe XD and exporting into a format that can generate code snippets, specs, and assets.

Mockup builder is a prototyping, mockup and wireframing tool that makes it easy to share your work with your clients or coworkers. You can create prototypes for mobile (iOS, Android) and web applications.

Justinmind is an all-in-one prototyping tool for web and mobile apps. It allows you to share and test designs that run on real devices and make your mobile wireframe look and feel like the finished application.

Keynotopia is a mockup toolkit for PowerPoint. The website offers different design bundles depending on what platforms you’re building and what presentation software (PowerPoint or Keynote) you use.

Main features:

3000+ pixel-perfect vector user interface components

200+ icons for PowerPoint and Keynote

Icons are editable and fully customizable

Pricing:

Templates: $39-$49

Bundles: around $97

Conclusion

This is it. 20 cool mockup tools you can use right away to design your next app or website. Creating a mockup is a great way to test an early version of your app and also helps developers when it comes to coding. Now, you have an updated list of mockup tools you can choose from.

If you have any tool suggestions, feel free to shoot us a mail and I will add it to the post. ;-)